Brendan O’Neill, whose savage indignation is always a pleasure to read, tells us what he really thinks of the three amigos — the Prime Ministers of Spain, Ireland, and Norway — who have just covered themselves in vainglory by recognizing the “State of Palestine.” More on his evisceration of the three can be found here: “Rewarding fascism,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, May 22, 2024:
So now we know what it takes to become a state: the murder of Jews. Rape, kill and kidnap Jews and seven months later, the leaders of Ireland, Spain and Norway will recognise your statehood. That’s the lesson of today’s coordinated spectacle of virtue-signalling in Dublin, Madrid and Oslo: pogroms work. The butchery of civilians gets results. Fascism has its rewards. This is ‘diplomacy’ at its most dangerous.
Of course, Irish taoiseach Simon Harris, Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez and Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre are presenting their pious recognition of Palestine as a stab for peace. This is about helping to ‘create a peaceful future’, said Harris. They’re either delusional or they’re engaging in doublespeak. For the true impact of their imperious intervention will be to exacerbate hostilities. Hamas will feel emboldened. It now knows that a wonderful gift awaits it if it keeps battering Israel: a state of its own. In dangling this dream before Hamas, the three PMs have all but green-lighted its terrorism.
Rarely has virtue-signalling felt so reckless. The PMs are so keen to broadcast their correct-think to the world that they appear not to have given one thought to what the consequences might be of three European nations butting in to a bloody war. Their blindness to everything but their own righteousness was best summed up in the figure of Simon Harris. There he was on the steps of Government Buildings in Dublin sermonising about how this is ‘the right thing to do’ – translation: ‘aren’t I wonderful?’ – without so much as a flicker of concern for the global impact of rewarding an act of apocalyptic violence.
That really is what is happening here. Harris and the others were careful to condemn Hamas’s 7 October pogrom, of course. Harris called it a ‘barbaric massacre’. And yet the fact is that today’s announcements, this vain granting of legitimacy to a Palestinian state, would not be happening had it not been for 7 October. Indeed, Harris expressly linked his recognition of Palestine with the ‘appalling’ and ‘unconscionable’ war in Gaza. Yes, a war started by Hamas. On 7 October. With its carnival of anti-Semitic barbarism, the likes of which the world had not seen since the Holocaust. And there you have it. Want a state? Start a war. Kill some Jews. Job done.
Whatever subjective spin the three PMs put on their heedless act of global virtue-signalling, the objective consequence is the legitimation of Hamas. Indeed, Hamas has warmly welcomed their recognition of Palestine, describing it as ‘an important step towards affirming our right to our land’. I’m not into guilt by association, but seriously – when an army of anti-Semites starts singing your praises, you’ve messed up. Badly….
This is what ‘Palestine’ has become for the cultural elites of the West: a moral balm, a source of fleeting meaning, a soapbox from which they can grandstand on faraway affairs, having zero vision for closer-to-home affairs. That’s what’s most unforgivable about today’s reckless act of unwitting Hamas emboldenment – that these three leaders seem to value their own 15 minutes of virtue more than the pressing task of bringing peace to the Middle East by bringing to an end the racist army that started the current war.
“Palestine” as “a moral balm, a source of fleeting meaning, a soapbox” for grandstanding “on faraway affairs.” What pointed prose. A palpable hit, forsooth! Be thankful that Brendan O’Neill is on the right side.
somehistory says
It isn’t just “antisemitism.” It’s islam, in all of its evil.
mozlums don’t just feel animosity, a raging hatred for the Jews and want them all dead. mozlums want everyone who refuses islam dead.
And the members of hamas, hezbollah, houthis, al queda, boko haram, al shabab, the rulers of iran, afghanisitan, pakistan, nigeria, sudan, ….and so many more, are gleeful if they get to have a part in the terror, the kidnappings, the rapes, the torture, and the murders of huge numbers of innocent people.
If a group of non-Jews lived in Israel, and hamas had control over Gaza, they would still claim that all of the land belongs to them. (Much like the mozlums in MI are taking over that State and pushing for the entire nation to be under their control)
They get a two-fer because Jews do live in Israel, and there are Jews who take the lead in the government, and the mozlum snakes drool and salivate to rape and murder as many Jews as they are able, because their hatred is so great.
Just as the mozlums in Africa are doing to Christians whom they also greatly hate.
And the leaders of these other nations can’t see the “handwriting on the wall.”
(That comes from the Bible Book of Daniel, when the Medes and Persians were about to enter Babylon and kill king Belshazzar; and a ‘hand’ wrote on the wall of the palace the coming death.).
They can’t see that their nations are also in the planning stage of the mozlums’ playbook for world domination. Even when so many mozlums live in each.
Paul says
Let me get this straight: they are standing in some form of solidarity for a country that does not exist? Worser and worser… Methinks their religiosity is rotting their brain, which it does to those folks who hang on to ancient fairy tales as truth.
tgusa says
I have read many comments on the internet from people of Irish decent saying they are now ashamed to be Irish. The leprechaun in my backyard told me there are a lot of idiots in the Ireland establishment and I believe him.
somehistory says
I’m part Irish and not ashamed. As some people are fond of saying “that’s not who we are.”
The Ireland of today is not the real Ireland. Too many mozlums and their supporters have invaded the Emerald Isle..
tgusa says
I gathered from the comments that they were not ashamed of being Irish just ashamed of the Irish establishment of today. BTW, my moms maiden name is O’Shea.
somehistory says
All my life, I have wanted to visit Ireland. Now, not so much.
A part of me says that women should be able to keep their first names if they wish to, but the long practice of the woman changing names when getting married, keeps some heritage hidden.
I love potatoes just about any way they can be prepared.
tgusa says
“All my life, I have wanted to visit Ireland. Now, not so much.”
Me too. I have a girl friend that moved from the US to Ireland a few years ago and now I’m worried about her. I was up in Idaho for awhile and there was a place that served some thing like 10 different types of french fried potato’s. Cant remember the name though.
tgusa says
“A part of me says that women should be able to keep their first names”
Yes but women can be fickle. My mothers first names were Francis Gene but she hated Francis so she went by Gene for all her life. Gene was the name of her male Doctor Uncle Gene. So figure that out, I cant.
jerry glenn says
Spain, Ireland, and Norway surge in the international Islamopandering derby
Lisa T. says
I was appalled when I learned that the Palestinians were offered 80-90% of the current geographical area of Israel in the 1920’s and they refused. Apparently, they would accept no Jewish presence in this area at all. (That tells me everything I need to know about this conflict.) In 1948 they were offered nearly half (45%.) They demanded to know why the Jews should get the majority, 55% and were told that the proposed Jewish state would have a large desert in it and thousands of refugees would be coming from Europe after the Holocaust. Instead of learning from their earlier mistake, they chose to go to war, which they lost. Then the surrounding Muslim states attacked, and they lost. There have been several uprisings since, all won by Israel. One might think God was on the Jews side.
Allah and Muhammad may have said Jews and Christians are the worst of creatures, but the true God appears to have a soft spot for us. Perhaps that is why the West and Israel have been blest with many riches even if we do not have all the natural resources found in Muslim countries. We better not take these blessings for granted. When we turn away from God and make our decisions based on what the media or society thinks of us, we are going down the wrong path.
David Altman says
Just so you know. In 1948, the 55% territory, included not simply “a large desert” . The Negev desert made up 60% of the of the territory allotted to the Jewish state.
Rick Olsha says
AM ISRAEL CHAI !!!!!